The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the WestCollier, 1889 |
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... that day now dwell in lands which , when these three Englishmen were born , held not a single white inhabitant ; the race which , when ( 15 ) THE SPREAD OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES THE SPREAD OF PEOPLES ENGLISH-SPEAKING.
... that day now dwell in lands which , when these three Englishmen were born , held not a single white inhabitant ; the race which , when ( 15 ) THE SPREAD OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES THE SPREAD OF PEOPLES ENGLISH-SPEAKING.
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... held their own , and indeed have sprung up in South Africa . All the European nations touching on the At- lantic seaboard took part in the new work , with very varying success ; Germany alone , then rent by many feuds , having no share ...
... held their own , and indeed have sprung up in South Africa . All the European nations touching on the At- lantic seaboard took part in the new work , with very varying success ; Germany alone , then rent by many feuds , having no share ...
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... held for him the lordship of the ocean . Then the cumbrous Spanish vessels succumbed to the attacks of the swift war- ships of Holland and England , and the sun of the Spanish world - dominion set as quickly as it had risen . Spain at ...
... held for him the lordship of the ocean . Then the cumbrous Spanish vessels succumbed to the attacks of the swift war- ships of Holland and England , and the sun of the Spanish world - dominion set as quickly as it had risen . Spain at ...
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... held their own against all comers for two centuries . Many other tribes stayed for a time the oncoming white flood , or even drove it back ; in Maine the settlers were for a hundred years con- fined to a narrow strip of sea - coast ...
... held their own against all comers for two centuries . Many other tribes stayed for a time the oncoming white flood , or even drove it back ; in Maine the settlers were for a hundred years con- fined to a narrow strip of sea - coast ...
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... held by foreign powers ; while in the north this was only true of the country between the Ohio and the Great Lakes during the first years of the Revolution , until the Kentucky backwoodsmen conquered it . Our rivals of European race had ...
... held by foreign powers ; while in the north this was only true of the country between the Ohio and the Great Lakes during the first years of the Revolution , until the Kentucky backwoodsmen conquered it . Our rivals of European race had ...
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